SUNY Buffalo’s Center for the Americas and Duke’s Center for North American Studies, which broadened its original focus from Canadian studies to include comparative and international-relations research about the United States, Canada, and Mexico

Wesleyan University’s American studies department, which offers “Comparative Americas” courses alongside classes focused solely on the United States

The program in inter-American studies in Penn State’s comparative lit­erature department

The Comparative American Studies Program at Oberlin (www .oberlin .edu/ CAS/);

The Hemi­spheric Institute on the Americas at UC Davis (hia .ucdavis .edu)

Duke’s Center for North American Studies, which in 1998 broadened its original focus on the United States to include Canada and Mexico

“North Ameri­can studies” have long adopted a transnational perspective by focusing on the United States and Canada.

Renvall Institute for North American Studies at the University of Helsinki

The Swedish Institute for North American Studies at the University of Upsala

The John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, in Berlin

The North American Studies Program at McGill Uni­versity, in Montreal

Transinstitutional Studies Network

Tepoztlán Institute was formed in 2003 with the mission to “facilitate an intensive dialogue be­tween North American and Latin American graduate stu­dents and junior and senior faculty members” (Tepoztlán Institute).

A number of these networks, such as the Inter-American Cultural Studies Network, had already origi­nated during the early 1990s, especially in Latin America.

2007 National Endowment for the Hu­manities seminar Hemispheric American Literature (dir. Adams and Levander) set out “to explore the new possibili­ties for American literary study opened up when ‘America’ is understood not as a synonym for the isolated United States, but as a network of cultural filiations that have ex­tended across the hemisphere from the period of coloniza­tion to the present” (Hemispheric American Literature).

Professional Organizations

Although the new International American Stud­ies Association was founded not exclusively to promote hemispheric scholarship but rather to create a supra­national institutional structure for American studies scholarship, it has explicitly emphasized the hemispheric approach since the beginning. According to its Web site, its mission is to further “the international exchange of ideas and information among scholars from all nations and various disciplines who study and teach America regionally, hemispherically, nationally, and transnation­ally” (International American Studies Association).